“I am now convinced, brothers and sisters, that the earlier you can give your whole heart to covenant-making, the greater can be your expectations of the Lord’s blessings. I believe that as long as we say, sometimes dishonestly, “well, I don’t want to make a promise like that; I’m afraid I couldn’t keep it,” that’s only beginning to get ready to think about anticipating, and it does not bring any strength. It’s when you make a covenant in the presence of witnesses and even in the sense of the presence of God that the heavens begin to shake for your good when you mean it, and then he promises with absolute conviction and trust in you, “I make the same covenant with you, and I will never break it.” Ultimately he asks us to give our all in covenant-making, with the promise that then and only then, he will give his all in our behalf. Every blessing that is possible to receive will remain with us and down the road in greater and greater fulfilment as we live. The everlasting covenant, the new and everlasting covenant centers in his sanctuary, the temple.” Truman G. Madsen, Foundations of Temple Worship, BYU-I Devotional Address, October 2004